{"quotes":[{"text":"Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.","author":"Carl Menger","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","austrian-school-of-economics","capitalism","central-banks","coercion","economics","federal-reserve","free","freedom","laissez-faire","libertarian","liberty","market","non-aggression-principle","slavery","statism","taxation","trade","voluntaryism"],"id":80045,"author_id":"Carl+Menger"},{"text":"I was reading in the paper today that Congress wants to replace the dollar bill with a coin. They’ve already done it. It’s called a nickel.","author":"Jay Leno","tags":["austrian-school-of-economics","banks","central-banks","coercion","collectivism","communism","crisis","economics","evil","fascism","federal-reserve","freedom","government","inflation","libertarian","liberty","money","power","scam","socialism","statism","taxation","theft","value","voluntaryism"],"id":85108,"author_id":"Jay+Leno"},{"text":"It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.","author":"Ron Paul","tags":["central-bank","federal-reserve","fiat","fiat-money","paper-money","war","wars"],"id":134606,"author_id":"Ron+Paul"},{"text":"Sneaky and underhanded, the Federal Reserve has been sucking the life blood out of the United States since 1913. Like a black widow spider, it weaves a web of corruption and deceit. Unknown to its prey, the FED's bite is poisonous, deep, long-lasting and brings financial upheaval and misery to Americans.","author":"Jim McCarthy","tags":["federal-reserve","the-money-spiders","united-states"],"id":330331,"author_id":"Jim+McCarthy"},{"text":"For the same reason a disease cannot be cured by more of the germ that caused it, the inflation and debt accumulation of the Obama years will not inflate our way out of it.","author":"Ron Paul","tags":["capitalism","corporatism","economics","fed","federal-reserve","freedom","interventionism","monetary-policy","property","ron-paul"],"id":378528,"author_id":"Ron+Paul"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}